Swedish Rhapsody

OUTLINE

During the 1950s, Klaus works as a radio engineer for the Stasi in the DDR. He is sent to Poland to to set up a numbers station to communicate with Polish agents stationed in the West. There, he devises a recognizable introduction theme by recording a music box. This introduction is repeated for several minutes for the user to tune. Along with him, he brings a numbers reading machine which he tweaks to increase the German female's voice pitch. The device ends up being used as is for the following decades by the Polish secret services.

During the early eighties, Ulla raises little Jouni in Naval Station Rota. Florence seeks refuge but disappears.

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Playa del Rompidillo, Rota, Spain

The sun still shines brilliantly on this late October afternoon in Rota, Spain. Ulla, the tall blond German woman better known by locals as Ursula for her resemblance to the Swiss actress, watches her 3 years old baby, Jouni, as she digs a hole in the sand. On the portable radio which she brought along to the beach, the radio announcer introduces the next hit in Spanish: -Y ahora, Start Me Up de los Rolling Stones. After a few loud bars, Ulla, turns off the radio but mistakenly hits the band button and recognizes a familiar melody instead. She fine tunes the short waves band to get a better signal. Captivated by the sound of a music box on the radio, Jouni stares at the USS John F. Kennedy anchored in the Bay of Cadiz. When the music box tune switches to an automated little girls voice reciting numbers in German, Jouni turns to her mother.

-Mommy, why is the little girl repeating numbers. Is she learning to count?

Ulla is mesmerized by the broadcast and stares at her daughter, not answering.

Wilson's family housing unit, Naval Station Rota, Spain

United States Navy Major Steve Wilson gets home after dinner.

-Sorry honey... Got delayed . Guess you've seen it when you were at the beach. We're harboring the USS JFK for a few weeks. That's like 5000 new home boys in town.

-Well the senoritas are going to be thrilled, answers Ulla as she wipes off tomato sauce from Jouni's face, sitting in a baby chair.

-Hello my little princess, says Steve as he grabs his daughter to get a kiss from his daughter before kissing his wife.

Still in her father's arms, Jouni tells her father that she now can count to seven in German.

-Eins, zwei, drei, fünf, sieben!

Ulla asks Steve if he know anything about stations that recites numbers and what for. He answer yes, on short waves, numbers stations...

Ulla tries to catch the station again and again, never catching it.

She tries to contact of her brother so that he retrieves her childhood music box from her adoptive parents home in Lubeck.

Florence hooks up with her at the supermarket parking lot while Ulla buckles Jouni on the back seat, but the encounter doesn't bode up well.

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